David Yi says you can. He’s the guy in the video. He is 30 years old. He spends on average an hour a day on…
BLOWN UP
MIT scientists are changing the future of furniture with self-inflating objects
At MIT, a team of scientists and designers are using a technique that allows objects to self-inflate. They call the project Auto-Inflatables, and researchers say…
BE THERE
An agoraphobic photographer traveled the world using only Google Street View
Jacqui Kenny is a unique kind of travel photographer: She’s never used a professional camera, and she doesn’t actually travel. While her photos can transport…
WORSE BUT NOT THE WORST
We asked Michael Bloomberg whether the world is better or worse off today than a year ago
Quartz asked Michael Bloomberg whether he sees the world as better or worse off than a year ago. He was hosting leaders and CEOs from…
NEW NARRATIVES
The dystopian vision that Westerners have about China is pretty backward
Earlier this summer, a Chinese woman named Shuping Yang gave a commencement speech at the University of Maryland, comparing life in her home country to…
LET THE DRONES DO IT FOR YOU
This drone can pinpoint a specific package in a giant warehouse
Manually scanning inventory in a giant warehouse is extremely time-consuming and prone to mistakes. But with a new system created by scientists from the MIT…
SEE WITH YOUR OWN EYES
An artist is using augmented reality to make the Syrian war feel real to people living in the US
To “make reality more real,” artist Asad J. Malik placed hologram images of the Syrian war in a variety of locations across the US. Anyone…
SOS
An artist created an “emotional first aid kit” to help you deal with daily stress
What would a first aid kit for our mind look like? That’s a question London-based designer Rui Sun tried to answer with her “Emotional First…
SPEEDSTERS
Watch: The 2017 World Rubik’s Cube Championship
The 2017 World Rubik’s Cube Championship took place in Paris in July. Over 1,100 speedcubers from 67 different countries competed against each other. The winner…
LIVING JEWELRY
MIT scientists created “living” jewelry that moves
Scientists from the MIT Media Lab believe that future jewelry should not be static, but “living objects on the body.” So they developed Kino, a…
LOVE IS IN THE LITTLE THINGS
Meet the misbehaving robots that are programmed to annoy you
Swiss-Mexican designer Nicole Pérez has a not-so-traditional idea to make robot companions more humanlike: make them more annoying. “What if a robot would forget the…
SWEET REVENGE
This woman trolls trolls with cakes
Kat Thek’s Brooklyn apartment looks like it came right out of a Wes Anderson movie. A pink flamingo and a golden skull sit on tables;…
